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How is this Walmart’s fault? They provide a service, yes it is a good deal and there are limited choices, but does that mean that people have to act like animals? Same thinking is what got Obama elected. Blame someone else for problems I created for myself. The ‘People’ are too stupid to know any better so lets blame the people ‘in control’. Yeh sounds great.

Walmart may well need something to help it rethink its policies, it sounds like. Some sort of a system that keeps people calm and waiting their turn instead of stampeding like a herd of wild buffalo when they have a “sale” on some piece of junk or the other would be a start.

Once several years ago, my mother was shopping at Walmart. A storm came up and the lights went out in the store. They began herding the people in the store out into the air-lock space out front and LOCKED THE DOORS BEHIND THEM. There was a tornado in process outside that blew roofs off many businesses in town, so the crowd couldn’t brave the lightning strikes and high winds outside and were stuck in the front with no shelter from all that glass in the lobby. Fortunately, the glass didn’t break, but many people could have been injured or killed if it had. Walmart’s worry seemed to be POTENTIAL SHOPLIFTING and nothing else. My poor old momma never stole anything in her life.

My mother managed to avoid going out the door in the first place and pulled back inside the store, refusing to be herded, before they could trap her inside the air lock. It was poor planning and distrust of their customers. I’ll bet, too, that most of their shoplifting occurs in the light right under their noses.